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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

THE Ggarnakers,- International
Union has perfected a scheme whereby
the Government is to loan the Cigar
makers International Union $75, OO0.-
900 for cooperative purposes for fif-
teen years at ten per cent. per annum.
TO erect five immense factories, one
each in New York, Chicago. San Fran
cisco, Richmond and Key West In
these factories, it is estimated, there
would be working capacity for Is, 600
cigarmakers, 5000 packers, 10000
shippers, 1000 clerks and 500 foremen.
The idea is to give the cigarmakers
more pay and less work, and at the
same time provide customers with good
cigars at the minimum price.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

STATES ATTORNEY GRINNELL, on
purely acknowledgements, challenged
the entire array of jurors at Chicago,
on the 9th, his evident purpose being
TO secure a special venire in the make
mp of which the county board would
have absolutely no voice. and in urging
the challenge he went so far as to de-
clare that, owing to the same techni-
cal defects, all the juries in the county
chosen since 1888 had been illegal.
Whereupon Alexander Sullivan, one of
the counsel for the boodlers, replied
that if Mr.. Grinnell's declarations were
true, the States Attorney must be pre-
pared to admit that the anarchist case
was illegal. Judge Shepard reserved
his decision.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12
Startling Developments of an Insoivent
Firm In Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA. May 4.-The appraisers
appointed by the court to ascertain the
amount of assets and Liabilities Of the in
solvent firm Of John and James Hunter,
have been engaged IN the performance Of
that duty for nearly month past. The dis
closures made to them in the prosecution Of
their work have proved Of startling char
acter. Since entering upon their task, they
have had returned to them $500, 600 Of out
standing paper issued byJames Hunter. This
enormous liability has come from every
channel Of trade and finance and tells IN
emphatic language the story OF James
Hunters awful perplexity and utter ruin
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

AT the Los Angeles (Cal.) Jail one
day recently eighty-five prisoners over
powered the jailer and made rush for
the door, but were stopped and COM
PEELED to return to their cells by a
negro cook, who, with cleaning
cleaver in his hand, threatened to
carve them into mlnce meat if they did
not return to their prison quarters.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

A FIGURING mill in Oregon pays an
adjacent saw mill fifty dollars day
for its sawdust, which it uses for fuel
in big furnaces. Their fuel cost them
one hundred dollars day before they
found that they could burn what most
Western saw mills throw away.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

ANEW YORK paper has the follow
ing: miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
has returned to her first calling by ac-
cepting the position of first assistant in
well known school for young ladies
in this city,"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

The wages of the employees of
the American sugar refinery at
San Francisco have been reduced
ten per cent, the reason assigned be-
ing the losses incurred by the operation
of the Interstate Commerce law.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

THE Philadelphia papers have an adj
vertisement calling upon all persons
having claims against Keely, the al
legged inventor of woodworking
motor, to present them at once. 1t is
said that his machine is about finished.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

The Temps, of Paris, says that num-
Der of torpedo boats were seriously
damaged in a storm while going to
Algiers, and that two have been dis
mantled and four others locked for re-
,0airS
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

PARIS, Ont, has set a good example
for the rest of the world by imprisOn-
ing a man for thirty days for allowing
livery horse to stand all night in har-
ness in an open shed, without food or
TOR.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

CAPTAIN BoYCoTT, the original Boy
colt, is now the agent on the Flixton
Hall estate, near Bungay, in Suffolk,
ENGLAND
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

w. H. GLIDER, who started in a
white flannel suit on a ramble to the
north pole in August last, has arrived
in New York with his suit badly dam
aUed.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12
CURRENT COMMENT.

ZoLA's ordinary income exceeds
sixty thousand dollars year.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-12

The heirs of Victor Hugo receive
annually fifty thousand francs, the
proceeds of his works.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09
Will Be Invited In.

If / diskiver suspicious character
hangin' around my place at night, will
de law let me pepper him wild bird
shot?' inquired a colored citizen at POI
lice headquarters yesterday.
Hardly. Has he tried to enter the
house.
mo. sab"
HAS he offered you any violence"
mo, sab. he simply hangs around. :"
''Then you have no right to pepper
him.
Him, good-day."
what is the casep" asked a reporter
who followed him outdoors.
..Jist dis, sab. De suspicious charac.
ter am my darter's beau. Tze turned
him outer de house but he keeps hang
ing around. Ireckoned if I could gin
him dose o. bird-shot it would cool
his luv an send him of, but bein'
can't I shall invite him in an hurry up
de marriage. I nebber fool around
wild such affairs. De fellow has either
got to skip or took me for afadder-in-
law inside Of 70 weeks. y Detroit Free
Press,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09
A NURSE.

nurse, simple nurse: to the unthinking
only nurse, and nothing but name:
patient woman in her round of duty
Living aud dying all unknown to fame.
Only nurse, messenger of mercy,
An angel sent unto our suffering race,
With quiet step, and tender hand of healing,
Divinest pity OH her gentle face.
When all the world lies wrapt in quiet slum-
ber
Save the poor sufferer moaning on his bed,
Whose watchfu eye with Christian love keeps
vigil
Through the long night with silent softened
tread?
Only q nurse, in duty all unshrinking;
Before such scenes mans stouter heart
would quail
See there. that sweet, fair girl, In sorest trial
Is at her post, nor will her courage fail.
The fever we but terror-struck encounter,
Or fly before with selfish, coward dread:
While nurse and doctor hasten t. the rescue
And stand untlinching by the stricken bed.
Hark! that weird bell-an accident at mid
night;
The nurse and doctor, wakeful, close at
hand,
Who minister to suffering or dying
The hospitals heroic little band!
There you or may in our need find refuge,
With kindly help and loving tender care;
Respect we give those brave, uuseltish women,
And night and day, remember them in
prayer.
Chambers Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09
ITO BE Continued
A LAUNDRY SECRET.
How Brilliant Gloss Can Be Impaired
to Collars and Cuffs.

How Brilliant Gloss Can Be Impaired
to Collars and CUFFS.
The question how the brilliant gloss
on linen done up in laundries i, OBJ
tanned is often asked, and the general
impression is that this shining surface
is owing to some peculiar substance
put into the starch. But skilled
lanndryman, when asked what was the
secret of this work, replied: 'The Sc
cret is pressure, nothing more" The
pressure of moving, hot cylinders is
used in steam laundries 1t must be
admitted, however, that this pressure,
combined with heat, is very hard upon
the texture of the linen, and every
woman, who for convenience in the
city sends her husbands shirts and col
lars and cuffs out to be laundried,
knows we'll how much sooner they
are worn out than when of old she had
them done up by her serving maid, or
by her own busy hands. A correspon-
dent of an exchange, writing on the
subject of laundry work, has some sug-
gestions we fancy our readers will find
of interest, and we quote at length: In
recent visit to steam laundry we
were much interested in the patent APP
planes for la ndering cuffs and col
lars to make them look like new, and
we found that the linen was passed be-
tween two moving hot cylinders under
a pressure of one hundred and twenty
pounds, and thus receives the high
polish.
The ordinary ironer willsucceed well il
after being sure the articles are washed
thoroughly, rinsed free from all traces
of soap and dipped in pure, clean
starch, she will use clean, smooth irons
and bear down heavily upon the round
top of the iron in rubbing the linen.
Practice will give a good degree OF
success. 1t might be easier to try a
cuff at first, then collar, because the
former has broad, smooth surface,
with fewer seams and edges to turn
yellow if the iron is too hot There
are starches of various kinds, patent
CLOSES and divers inventions said to
produce a polish upon linen; but the
better way is to depend upon the COM
mon starch bought in the bulk and of
the best grade. You can add the 9th
er ingredients to suit yourself Some
laundresses stir the hot starch once or
twice round with a spermaceti candle
kept for the purpose, and others add
bit of clean mutton tallow; but for
eign substances, like wax, gum arabic,
salt or sugar, must be added with eau
ton. Very nice laundry work is done
by the ad of pure starch alone, with
no additions. Whatever may be the
preparations used in large laundries, we
know they donot depend entirely upon
the starch to produce the coveted
gloss. -Bostoa Badges.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09
is HE IN PoLITIcs7
Uneasiness Among the Blainiacs" rs to
Ex-senator Conkling's Intentions.

Ex-senator Conkling's Intentions.
There may be yet more grief in store
for the Blainiacs. A new figure looms
up whom Blaine thought he had left
hors dc combat. 1t is no less person
than Roscoe Conkling, who is still not
by any means an old man. That he is
power in the party nobody denies.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Record has been looking the matter up.
He says:
It would not be matter Of surprise to the
veteran politicians il Mr. Conkling should turn
up ut Albany as candidate for election to the
United States Senate-though 1t would be In
the nature Of an unpleasant surprise for MIR.
Blaine notice that our Roscoe Is again CIV
ing close attention to his attire, and that he
wears good clothes, trims his beard and
changes his necktie frequently. These signs,
| in the case Of q widower, always indicate
matrimony, and, with Mr.. Conkling, may be
taken for an intention to again coquet with
politics and WOO tho Republican majority in
the Legislature. Besides, he has made snug
little sum in the last six years, and has laid by
and safely invested &200 600 for his old age, his
wife having as much more in her own right. So
Mr.. Conkling. at ffty-eight, alert, handsome
and eloquent, whose bugle blast is worth 10000
men to his party any day, may safely aspire to
the Senate as New York's only great Repub-
lican leader, and not unreasonably he may
have an eye upon the Presidency.
Conkling would naturally take the
place of Logan as astalwart leader. He
will be even more formidable, for he
has no recent quarrels to heal up as
Logan's courage had made him. Conk-
ling's quarrels were not SO noble and
creditable as Logan's, but they were
not so recent. He is incomparably SUI
perior to Blaine in every manly trait.
He would not be driven to so many
personal explanations involving down
right falsehood. Still, he may have
learned to dislike politics, and he may
also have no aspirations higher than
the Senate. He might give the New
York Blaine henchmen some trouble on
that score. Blaine can't afford to let
Conkling back into public life on any
terms or for any purpose. Preconceived
purposes and final acts do not always
correspond in magnitude.
Our advice to the unhappy storm
driven Blaine boomers is to keep a
weather eye on Conkling. His motives
may be the most innocent in the world.
But even then he may experience new
motives. Where power is ample and
nothing is lacking but motive it is
safe to look out. Motives come with
strange suddenness and from strange
sources sometimes. It is pity for the
Blaine people. Their distress is ex-
IRENE, and has led them to do some
questionable things of late in order to
save their candidate at least until con-
vention time. They had long siege
trying to get him nominated. and then
failed to get him elected, and any fur
Their disasters are cruel to the extent of
exciting sympathy even among bitter
enemies es Holmes Leader.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09
Mary and william College.

There is sad illustration Of the de
cadence of power in the present condi-
tor Of that once famous and prosper
Gus institution of learning, the Mary
and William College, the first endowed
college in America In order to pre-
serve the State charter it is necessary
that the college bell should be rung
every day, and as there is neither school
nor pupils this duty devolves on the
president. Every day, storm or sun
shine, the lonely professor may be seen
vending his way to the old college, and
soon the melancholy sound Of tho school
bell wakes the echoes in the silent and
deserted building and preserves the sad
memorial Of happier days to the city Of
Jamestown and State Of Virginia. 1t
is, indeed, mournful commentary up
on departed greatness, but there are
hopes that it may yet be resuscitated
as seat Of knowledge. Detroit FREQ
Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09
With a Democratic Presiden

With Democratic President
trying to give the Office of Recorder to
colored man and Republican Sem
ate trying to keep him from doing so,
the impression is likely to be made on
the negro mind that, after all, the
Democrats and not the Republicans are
the friends Of the colored race. Should
this condition Of mind come to be prev
alent the solid South will be soldier
than ever, and the last argument Of the
bloody-shirt group Of Republicans will
be crushed out Of all semblaace to an
arenn,Ant IL Chicago Nts0s
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09
The Republicans "Navy."


In letter to Congressman Lawler
Admiral Porter made use of the ex-
pressions: /" Every harbor on our coast
is at the mercy Of hostile guns. "Our
blackboard cities are entirely open. "
..There is not nation on earth that
could not wage war upon our coasts
with perfect impunity.'' 1--WE have
but a single frigate which could be
made ready to fire gun in months. !"
The old navy is gone or is going so fast
that it is no longer available for war
purposes. The new navy is yet on the
stocks or on paper.
For the purpose of emphasizing the
recklessness and corruption of the era
which brought the great navy of the
war period to this condition the
amount Of money expended on the es-
tablishment from 1869 to 1877 is here
with anne nded.s
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09
plT4 AND POINT.

.-"God loves the cheerful giver,"
but the trouble is SO many of us are
cheerful over SO pesky little. = hilalet
phia Call
When man becomes firmly con-
WINGED that he is a genius, it is then
that the fringe slowly begins to form
on the bottom of his trousers leg.-Lts.
Miss Film Have you read Mr..
Rattlebrane's novel? Tell me, how did
it come out? Fogg-I suspect he
had it published at his own risk
Boston Transcript.
The yacht Thistle, now building at
Glasgow, is specially designed to COM
pete for Americas cup next season.
Thistle give newspaper jokers another
opportunity to get off a lot of diabolical
puns anent the race. -Noy75stowa
Herald.
You don't like these modern COM
posers, then, Mr.. Jonesa" "Oh, yes.
some Of 'em; but I draw the line at
this teller Wag- Wag-Wag-er-ner. You
see, can't whistle tune he ever
wrote, or do anything of his on the
banjo" "That is rather drawback
to his music, admit. "-Harper's
Bazaar.
High old-style daughter-Are my
feathers on all right, mar Mother
with opera-glasses)-I will see. Oh,
yes; they are all right, except one. ]
put the step-ladder away, SO that !
can't fix it, but it don t look so bad, my
dear. 1t will do.-Merchant Traveler.
They were seated at late Sunday
dinner when the door-bell rang. Good
ness gracious!'' she exclaimed, ''it's
our minister, and I've been eating
onions "Never mind, my dear" re-
piled her husband, ''you need not kiss
him to-day. "-Brooklyn Bridge Ban
neT.
"A young man asked the lady Of his
affections the other evening how she
liked the look of his new style of stand
ing collar. After critically surveying
him and the collar, she replied: Every
nice, indeed. It looks like white
washed fence around lunatic asy-
lum. IN 7. Ledger.
--Of the 10000 or 10000 Boston
women entitled to vote only 1893 have
taken the trouble to register. There
are great many women in this coun-
try who want the ballot, but they want
itbrought to their house, cut en- traine,
with U-shaped neck, and garnished
with jettrimming. Norristovn Herald.
Two pickpockets saw gentleman
receive large sum at the bank, and
followed him for some time to get
chance at it. Finally the watched man
turned into lawyers Office, and ono
Of the watchers said: "That settles 1t.
He's gone. Come along mo. nor
said the other; ''wait till the lawyer
comes out. Wen tackle himr'
Bobby was awake when his mother
came home from the party at midnight.
"Did you say your prayers to nurse,
Bobby. she asked, "before you went
to bedp'' mo, Mamma, fordot 1t. !"
.Well, you better come and say them
to me, now "What, said Bobby, In
drowsy astonishment "does bod stay
| up all nightp Prairie Farmer.
-Tramp-Can't you spare little
present for an old soldier who lost his
leg in the charge at Cold Harbor, Vir-
giniap Citizen-But, look here, man.
last month you told me you lost that
leg in the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi.
Tramp-So did, SO / did; but tho
Battle of Corinth was fought at Cold
Harbor, and amt the man to 60 back
on the history Of my country.-Bur-
dette
---1b
i ~ u
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09

Here was an aggregate appropria-
ton in eight years of more than $780,
100000. During that period the Brit
ish Government expended about twice
as much money on its navy, and it had
in 1877, as it has now, the most formi-
dable fleet In the world. The question
naturally arises: If by spending one
half as much money as England the
United State can not at present show
a single ship Of war capable of meeting
and resisting hostile fleet, how many
more millions would they have been
compelled to spend in order to have had
one such vessel?
The grotesque insincerity Of the
organs of the dispensation which re-
duced the American navy to this de-
plorable condition in pretending that
Robesonism and Roachism are things
to be honored and applauded will not
long survive inspection Of the figures
and glance at the results. Admiral
Porter's review of the situation places
matters in as bad light as has yet
been thrown upon them, and the
emphasis with which h. dwells upon
them can not be ascribed to partyism.
It is the duty Of Congress to look the
facts squarely in the face, to repair the
waste and to lose no time in furthering
the plans Of the experimentation an en-
tire reconstruction Of the feet. Chica.
90 Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09
The Republicans Of the India

The Republicans Of the Indiana
Legislature have nominated Senator
Harrison by reclamation, but the ac-
clamation is strictly confined to the
nomination. The Senator will gra-
ciously accept any kind Of an election
DO can get.-M J. World,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-02-09

One of the things worthy Of note
in these days when the Stockbridges,
Farwells, Mortons, Stewards and
Hearsts are raking in the fat Of the
North to the exclusion of the soldier, is
the fact that John NJ. Hewitt, who was
a Captain in the Federal army, has just
been elected Speaker of the Arkansas
House Of Representatives. Chicago
Herald.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-06-24
DESPEDIDA.

En- Ell vapor Ponce de Leon Sc
embarcaron aver, con rumbo 4
Europa, con ell plausible objeto de
cumplimentar la honrosa comi-
sion que los lleva a Madrid, nues-
tros distinguidos amigos ell Excmo
Sr. D. Gregorio Ledesma y don
Miguel Antonio Blstelo.
No dudamos, volvemos 4 decir,
que sus patri6ticos esfuerzos en-
la Corte produciran un satisfac.
torio resultado para la Provincla.
Tambien SO han embarcado pa.
ra la Peninsula, en- el mismo Va.
por, nuestros estimados amigos y
correligionarios de AguadiIla y
Aguas Buenas, respectivamente,
don Manuel Pena y don Juan
Crosas, cuyas gratas visitas be.
mos tenido ell gusto de recibir.
A todos deseamos feliz viaie y
pronta y no menos feliz vuelta.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-06-24

Hemos visto en- una hoja suelta
que publica un periodiquin de Hu-
macao la relaci6n de ciertos su-
cesos que a SUI manera coments el
autor de la hoja, y tienden a esta-
blecer amargas quejas contra la
Guardia Civil y ell Jefe de aquel
Escuadr6n, que a la saxon allf Sc
encontraba. NADIA concrete nos
dice; mas, por un soliloquio bufo
que oontiene, deducimos que todo
clio no rs mas que una exhibici6n
extemporanea 6 impertinente Y NAL
aconsejada por alguno de esos que
acostumbran a tirar la piedra Y
esconder la mano. Bien conoce-
mos al digno Jefe alndido, Y no le
conceptuamos capaz de dar mott
vos para la mas leve queja de
nadie; tales son su cordura, su
prudencia y su respeto para la So
ciedad en- que vive. Conque, asi
que ell senor Juan Mer-
cedes no volvera & incurrir en- otrs.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1887-06-24
D, E. p


Ell estimabie sehor don Cecilic
Pelaez, consocio y pariente de
nuestro buen amigo el Diputado
Provincial don Jose M. Fern&n.
dez, ha pasado q mejor vida, en-
Lola, tras penosa y cruel enfer.
medad.
Agradecemos Ia esquela de i'm
vitaci6n con que hemos sido favo.
recido para asistir 4 las honras
que en- sufragio del alma del di-
funto Sc estan preparando en- el
citado pueblo.
Deseamos para el senior Pel&ez
Ia gloria eterna, enviando 4 sus
deudos y consocios nuestro pesa.
me mas sentido. q